Concocting of voting results became one of the main types of electoral fraud in Russia in the 21st century. I describe and analyze in detail statistical tools allowing to identify such falsifications. Detailed data on affected subjects, electoral events and characteristics are provided.

electoral statistics, electoral frauds, psychologically attractive values, round numbers, statistical hypotheses, significance, combined test, measure of unreliability, Pearson’s chi-squared test, relative likelihood test

Podlazov Andrey Viktorovich,  ,  orcid.org/0000-0002-0328-3814,  KIAM RAS